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		<title>By: Josi525</title>
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		<dc:creator>Josi525</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Theo995</title>
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		<dc:creator>Theo995</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Sunny Gedris</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sunny Gedris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 20:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: angie</title>
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		<dc:creator>angie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Does a zygote, blastocyte, embryo have consciousness or a soul?...A women with endometriosis often suffers from problems with a blastocyte implanting.  If it doesn&#039;t it leaves the body with the menstral blood.  Should we sterilize all women with endometriosis to make sure this doesn&#039;t happen?...To all those thousands of couples wanting to adopt a baby, why don&#039;t you adopt an older child?. Ted Bundy was once an embryo; do you think he had a soul?...At least 15% of pregnancy spontaneously end (low estimate)(ergo if 6 billion people are alive then 900 million were terminated by God)...Should we be mad at God for allowing this to happen?  Shouldn&#039;t we be storming the churches?  What do you suppose God did with all of those souls.  Ever see someone die?  All essence of life vanishes, only the body remains.  A body without a soul is nothing.  If the brain is not developed there is no consciousness. Would we be justified in forcing a child or a rape victim to carry a pregnancy to term?  Why don&#039;t we help feed the children that already exist and have consciousness and suffering.  Women become pregnant for all sorts of reasons - rape, birth control failure, or even just poor judgement.  Do you really feel you have the right to make her have a child? Do really feel that in poor countries, desperate women are worthless and deserve death from illegal botched abortions?  Who gives you the right to decide?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Does a zygote, blastocyte, embryo have consciousness or a soul?&#8230;A women with endometriosis often suffers from problems with a blastocyte implanting.  If it doesn&#8217;t it leaves the body with the menstral blood.  Should we sterilize all women with endometriosis to make sure this doesn&#8217;t happen?&#8230;To all those thousands of couples wanting to adopt a baby, why don&#8217;t you adopt an older child?. Ted Bundy was once an embryo; do you think he had a soul?&#8230;At least 15% of pregnancy spontaneously end (low estimate)(ergo if 6 billion people are alive then 900 million were terminated by God)&#8230;Should we be mad at God for allowing this to happen?  Shouldn&#8217;t we be storming the churches?  What do you suppose God did with all of those souls.  Ever see someone die?  All essence of life vanishes, only the body remains.  A body without a soul is nothing.  If the brain is not developed there is no consciousness. Would we be justified in forcing a child or a rape victim to carry a pregnancy to term?  Why don&#8217;t we help feed the children that already exist and have consciousness and suffering.  Women become pregnant for all sorts of reasons &#8211; rape, birth control failure, or even just poor judgement.  Do you really feel you have the right to make her have a child? Do really feel that in poor countries, desperate women are worthless and deserve death from illegal botched abortions?  Who gives you the right to decide?</p>
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		<title>By: Go ND!</title>
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		<dc:creator>Go ND!</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The fact is that a zygote has been scientifically demonstrated to be a unique, living member of the human species.  Normally we call unique, living members of the human species &quot;people&quot; with certain &quot;rights&quot;.  With this bill, ND is just seeking to be consistent and follow where logic leads--to some surprising places, perhaps!  :) There may be a few other statutes whose language needs amending, after this.

But consistency is the key.  This really is not so much a question of whether these are human beings--science has proven they are.  It is a question of whether all human beings have rights, or whether some human beings are disposable.  And beware promoting the idea that some human beings can be classified &quot;disposable&quot;--you may find yourself dumped into that classification some day.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The fact is that a zygote has been scientifically demonstrated to be a unique, living member of the human species.  Normally we call unique, living members of the human species &#8220;people&#8221; with certain &#8220;rights&#8221;.  With this bill, ND is just seeking to be consistent and follow where logic leads&#8211;to some surprising places, perhaps!  :) There may be a few other statutes whose language needs amending, after this.</p>
<p>But consistency is the key.  This really is not so much a question of whether these are human beings&#8211;science has proven they are.  It is a question of whether all human beings have rights, or whether some human beings are disposable.  And beware promoting the idea that some human beings can be classified &#8220;disposable&#8221;&#8211;you may find yourself dumped into that classification some day.</p>
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		<title>By: Terence</title>
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		<dc:creator>Terence</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;If you don&#039;t like slavery, then don&#039;t own a slave! Who are you to oppose your morality on me?&quot;

&quot;The Jew is a foul degenerate, better to purge from us the entire race now than to allow them to breed and plague our progeny&quot;

Friends if you do not &quot;judge&quot; – &quot;right&quot; from &quot;wrong&quot; – you are traveling a blazing &quot;one-way&quot; course to &quot;perversion&quot; and &quot;degradation&quot; that will eventually land you in a &quot;lake of fire&quot;! Revelation 21:8

We respect the dignity of all human life from cradle to the grave, or should I say womb to the tomb.

Abortion is not a right, no more than slavery was.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;If you don&#8217;t like slavery, then don&#8217;t own a slave! Who are you to oppose your morality on me?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The Jew is a foul degenerate, better to purge from us the entire race now than to allow them to breed and plague our progeny&#8221;</p>
<p>Friends if you do not &#8220;judge&#8221; – &#8220;right&#8221; from &#8220;wrong&#8221; – you are traveling a blazing &#8220;one-way&#8221; course to &#8220;perversion&#8221; and &#8220;degradation&#8221; that will eventually land you in a &#8220;lake of fire&#8221;! Revelation 21:8</p>
<p>We respect the dignity of all human life from cradle to the grave, or should I say womb to the tomb.</p>
<p>Abortion is not a right, no more than slavery was.</p>
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		<title>By: Natalie</title>
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		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve had an abortion. My choice. My right. Men need to be held equally accountable for their actions as well seeing as how it takes two to make a baby. They should faces charges for reckless abandonment. People need to smarten up. You can&#039;t control women anymore, so get over it. Live your life and let God do his job - its not your job to judge.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve had an abortion. My choice. My right. Men need to be held equally accountable for their actions as well seeing as how it takes two to make a baby. They should faces charges for reckless abandonment. People need to smarten up. You can&#8217;t control women anymore, so get over it. Live your life and let God do his job &#8211; its not your job to judge.</p>
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		<title>By: Freedom</title>
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		<dc:creator>Freedom</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Freedom. Freedom of thought. Freedom of religion. 
When will people recognize we all have different thoughts, and beliefs. Two people with two different beliefs does not mean one is necessarily wrong. Just different. Being different is not wrong, or illegal, its just different. 
We will never end war or conflict in this world until we accept those who think different from ourselves. Your way is not the only way. 
I believe you have the right to be different. I may not agree with your thinking, but you have rights just like me. I will not partake in your ideas. You do not have to join in mine. We&#039;re different. 
I&#039;m OK with your difference. But don&#039;t force your ideals on me!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Freedom. Freedom of thought. Freedom of religion.<br />
When will people recognize we all have different thoughts, and beliefs. Two people with two different beliefs does not mean one is necessarily wrong. Just different. Being different is not wrong, or illegal, its just different.<br />
We will never end war or conflict in this world until we accept those who think different from ourselves. Your way is not the only way.<br />
I believe you have the right to be different. I may not agree with your thinking, but you have rights just like me. I will not partake in your ideas. You do not have to join in mine. We&#8217;re different.<br />
I&#8217;m OK with your difference. But don&#8217;t force your ideals on me!</p>
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		<title>By: Rick</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Abortion is murder, plain and simple. It makes me puke that my tax dollars indirectly go towards abortion via Planned Parenthood (what a great name btw. why not change it to Planned Murder or Planned Abortion?) There are thousands of couples in this country willing to adopt a baby. The days of orphanages in this country are long over. The days of the Roe vs. Wade decision should be long over also.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Abortion is murder, plain and simple. It makes me puke that my tax dollars indirectly go towards abortion via Planned Parenthood (what a great name btw. why not change it to Planned Murder or Planned Abortion?) There are thousands of couples in this country willing to adopt a baby. The days of orphanages in this country are long over. The days of the Roe vs. Wade decision should be long over also.</p>
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		<title>By: James</title>
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		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is a classic example of poisoning the well by attempting to equate the zygote with an ovum.)  An egg is fertilized and becomes a zygote almost instantaneously!  A zygote develops into an embryo about two weeks later.

This is why French geneticist Jerome L. LeJeune, while testifying before a Senate Subcommittee, asserted:

To accept the fact that after fertilization has taken place a new human has come into being is no longer a matter of taste or opinion. The human nature of the human being from conception to old age is not a metaphysical contention, it is plain experimental evidence. [2]

http://www.religioustolerance.org/abo_fetu.htm

At conception: One very lucky spermatozoon out of hundreds of millions ejaculated by the man will penetrate the outside layer of the ovum and fertilize it. This happens typically in the outer third of one of the woman&#039;s Fallopian tubes. The surface of the ovum changes its electrical characteristics and normally prevents additional sperm from entering. A genetically unique entity is formed shortly thereafter, called a zygote. This is commonly referred to as a &quot;fertilized ovum.&quot; However that term is not really valid because the ovum ceases to exist after conception. Half of the zygote&#039;s 46 chromosomes come from the egg&#039;s 23 chromosomes and the other half from the spermatozoon&#039;s 23. It has a unique DNA structure, different from that of the ovum and the spermatozoon. The zygote  &quot;...is biologically alive. It fulfills the four criteria needed to establish biological life:

   1. metabolism,
   2. growth,
   3. reaction to stimuli, and
   4. reproduction.&quot; [1]

It can reproduce itself through twinning at any time up to about 14 days after conception; this is how identical twins are caused.

Conception is the point that most, or all, pro-life groups and conservative Christians define as the beginning of pregnancy. [8] Most of these groups define the start of a human person as occurring at conception.  [Since 1965] The medical definition of the start of pregnancy is about 10 days later, at implantation.  The zygote divides into two cells, called blastomeres. They subdivide once every 12 to 20 hours as the zygote slowly passes down the fallopian tubes.

http://www.christiananswers.net/q-sum/q-life000.html

You did not come from a zygote.

    You once were a zygote. 

You did not come from an embryo.

    You once were an embryo. 

You did not come from a fetus.

    You once were a fetus. 

You did not come from an adolescent.

    You once were an adolescent.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a classic example of poisoning the well by attempting to equate the zygote with an ovum.)  An egg is fertilized and becomes a zygote almost instantaneously!  A zygote develops into an embryo about two weeks later.</p>
<p>This is why French geneticist Jerome L. LeJeune, while testifying before a Senate Subcommittee, asserted:</p>
<p>To accept the fact that after fertilization has taken place a new human has come into being is no longer a matter of taste or opinion. The human nature of the human being from conception to old age is not a metaphysical contention, it is plain experimental evidence. [2]</p>
<p><a href="http://www.religioustolerance.org/abo_fetu.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.religioustolerance.org/abo_fetu.htm</a></p>
<p>At conception: One very lucky spermatozoon out of hundreds of millions ejaculated by the man will penetrate the outside layer of the ovum and fertilize it. This happens typically in the outer third of one of the woman&#8217;s Fallopian tubes. The surface of the ovum changes its electrical characteristics and normally prevents additional sperm from entering. A genetically unique entity is formed shortly thereafter, called a zygote. This is commonly referred to as a &#8220;fertilized ovum.&#8221; However that term is not really valid because the ovum ceases to exist after conception. Half of the zygote&#8217;s 46 chromosomes come from the egg&#8217;s 23 chromosomes and the other half from the spermatozoon&#8217;s 23. It has a unique DNA structure, different from that of the ovum and the spermatozoon. The zygote  &#8220;&#8230;is biologically alive. It fulfills the four criteria needed to establish biological life:</p>
<p>   1. metabolism,<br />
   2. growth,<br />
   3. reaction to stimuli, and<br />
   4. reproduction.&#8221; [1]</p>
<p>It can reproduce itself through twinning at any time up to about 14 days after conception; this is how identical twins are caused.</p>
<p>Conception is the point that most, or all, pro-life groups and conservative Christians define as the beginning of pregnancy. [8] Most of these groups define the start of a human person as occurring at conception.  [Since 1965] The medical definition of the start of pregnancy is about 10 days later, at implantation.  The zygote divides into two cells, called blastomeres. They subdivide once every 12 to 20 hours as the zygote slowly passes down the fallopian tubes.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.christiananswers.net/q-sum/q-life000.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.christiananswers.net/q-sum/q-life000.html</a></p>
<p>You did not come from a zygote.</p>
<p>    You once were a zygote. </p>
<p>You did not come from an embryo.</p>
<p>    You once were an embryo. </p>
<p>You did not come from a fetus.</p>
<p>    You once were a fetus. </p>
<p>You did not come from an adolescent.</p>
<p>    You once were an adolescent.</p>
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